I got a couple loads of locust into the durango this afternoon. Not a huge amount, but good btu's. This is what we locally call yellow locust. It doesn't have thorns like I've seen in other post, but I am sure it is not a planted tree... there are lots of them around in all the forest areas. Never rots, cuts like steel but burns much hotter and longer than the oaks. The piled up pic has a few rounds of white pine and rotten poplar on the right side of pic...
Nice! That's exactly what I have in the stacks. Not a single thorn to be found, bright yellow inside, and they were growing next to the wetlands behind a newer home. I was told it's black locust
You'll be more than happy you picked that stuff up. Good on you! Add this to the car hoarding thread!!!!
That's black locust. They usually don't have thorns, or many anyway, as they age it seems. Every time I find one dead it's thorn free. You'll find the thorns on the younger trees and mostly on the newer, more "active" branches. They just seem to wither away with age.
Moparguy geographically we are pretty close, but these are not black locust (at least not locally called that anyway) we have those as well, but the fence rail guys hoard them.The young trees (3 inches or smaller I guess) do have thorns like a rose bush, but they go away at larger sizes. I've never seen one of those thorned up monsters in the woods and I'm not so sure I want to. I got some black locust a few years ago when I had my chainsaw mill and the wood cut just as hard, but the lumber was very nice, the bark much darker in color.
